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Potentially useful things

A few years ago I made this video of my daughter demonstrating the
McGurk Effect (McGurk and MacDonald 197).
This effect is a demonstration of the importance of visual information
during perception. Or, perhaps, it is best understood as a
demonstration of the importance of listener expectations and how
they can be established in real time by stunningly subtle cues.

This script fixes a weird problem when concatenating TextGrids and
sound objects. Often a TextGrid and its associated sound object
will differ by anywhere from fraction of a millisecond to a few
milliseconds. This is not a problem until you try to concatenate
the TextGrids and still align them with their concatenated sound
objects when suddenly intervals and points later in the chain will
begin to be increasingly misaligned.

Let’s say that you, like me, love New Order’s song Blue Monday.
For some reason, let’s imagine that you have a computer and Praat
but no access to your music collection, youtube, spotify, or, um,
any other part of the internet but somehow still have access to
this blog. Okay, no, that’s silly. Here is a Praat script that
will sort of play part of this great song.

This Praat editor script will draw a series of 6 FFT spectra starting
from a cursor in the edit window. Use Add to dynamic menu…
from the File menu to add to, say, the Spectrum
menu. Useful for nasalization, diphthongs, and a thousand other
purposes.

An airflow system like the SQLab EVA2 used in our lab creates separate wav-like files for audio, oral airflow, and nasal airflow. Usually we use a program like wavesurfer or Praat to view these files and extract our measurements.

CSS should make the creation and sharing of standard interlinear
glosses/translations
easy; so far it does not. In general, either the text entry or the
output (or both!) is absolutely unacceptable. For example:

I needed to calculate the number of consonant bigrams in English monomorphemic words from CELEX. The hash ‘bigrams’ contains the 30^2 possible consonant clusters given the DISC transcriptions, the transcription has already had stress and syllabification stripped from it. The first version of the code did it this way:

This is not intended to be a complete list, but I need to put these
somewhere that I’m unlikely to lose them. Here are some things I
believe, have no evidence for, but would like to work toward in my
research: